Improvement in turpentine-scrapers



J OHN O. MCOASKILL, OF SHOE HEEL, NORTH CAROLINA.

IMPROVEMENT IN TURPENTINE-SCRAPERS.

Specification l'orniing part of Letters Patent N0. 205,661, dated July 2, 1873; application filed June l5, 1878.

To all whom it may concern.'

Beit known that I, JOHN C. McCAsKILL, of Shoe Heel, in the county of Robeson and State of North Carolina, have invented a new and Improved Turpentine-Scraper; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

My invention is an improved implement for removing the scrape orhard turpen tine-gu1n from the face of the box cut in the trees.

The implement consists of a two-edged scraper proper and a handle7 which is secured thereto in such amanner as to permit its convenient detachment for the purpose of reversing the scraper when its lower edge has become dull.

In the accompanying' drawing, forming part of this specilication, Figure lis a plan view of the implement. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section on line x of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an edge view of the scraper proper.

rlhe scraper proper A is constructed of a thin metal plate, preferably steel, which is bent so as to have, in cross-section, the form of an equilateral triangle. Its upper and lower edges a a are beveled or sharpened,

and the ends of the plate are lapped and secured to the bent handle B by means of screwbolts D D.

This construction of the scraper and its means of attachment to the handle enable it to be conveniently and quickly detached and reversed when required on account of the edge a, which has been in use, having been broken out or become dulled, so that it cannot be made to perform its function effectively.

Although such scraper is ordinarily used by drawing it downward from above and over the face of the box, it may be used by pushing downward, in which case the edge a is the working-edge.

What I claim is- The improved turpentinescraper consisting of the triangular plate having an upper and lower edge, a a', the handle B, and the screwbolts D D, all constructed as shown and described.

JOHAT C. MCGASKILL. Witnesses:

B. F. MCLEAN, JOHN LEACH. 

